Word: lavished
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...give an update on what the situation was in Central America," said Adam Goodman, political director of the Baltimore-based Robert Goodman agency, which produced most of Channell's TV ads. Goodman said North did not engage in fund raising or political posturing at the events, which included lavish dinners at Washington's exclusive Hay-Adams Hotel...
...They're wild! They kept coming up all the time. They have lavish parties. They really know how to blow off steam." Among the achievements cited in the article as an example of party mentality was a prank in which MIT students used chemicals to weld shut the gates of Harvard Yard...
...trips to Vail, Colo., and gambling junkets to Las Vegas. They played polo together and lived in luxury condominiums in fashionable West Los Angeles. The Billionaire Boys Club was a group of about 30 rich kids who were out to have fun and get richer, but authorities say their lavish life-style and freewheeling investment philosophy soon led some members to swindles and violence. In Santa Monica last week, the B.B.C.'s compelling but manipulative founder, Joe Hunt, watched as jury selection began for his trial on murder charges, which could put him on death...
Americans put everything from lavish dinners to European holidays on credit cards, so why not let the needy use plastic to buy necessities? By next July welfare recipients in San Francisco will be able to charge everything from food purchases to doctors' bills on a public assistance card, complete with magnetic strip and photograph. City officials predict that the new system, - which will do away with such fixtures of the welfare life as food stamps and triplicate medicaid forms, will save $6 million a year and cut layers of bureaucracy. Though several other states have used welfare credit, San Francisco...
...week was lacking in the austerity that the International Monetary Fund has usually demanded from its cash- strapped borrowers. Instead, on the occasion of the annual joint meeting of the IMF and the World Bank, there were scores of parties, ranging from elegant dinners in Georgetown town houses to lavish banquets in the National Gallery's East Building. Hundreds of guests arrived in long lines of limousines and munched golden raspberries from California, wild mushrooms from France, and smoked pheasant...